May 2012 is Bob’s 20 year anniversary at QVC. To honor this momentous occasion, we will be pinning milestones, best sellers, and more to this board http://pinterest.com/bobmackie/20-years-of-bob-mackie-wearable-art/

What is Pinterest you ask? Pinterest is a free online virtual pinboard to visually collect and organize anything that inspires you. It’s great to gather your ideas from the web and your own personal files for anything from planning a party, re-decorating, and even to books you want to read. Check out all of our pin boards and follow us: http://pinterest.com/bobmackie/

You can WIN a Wearable Art Shopping Spree! All you have to do is re-pin anything from the “20 Years of Bob Mackie Wearable Art” board with the tag #wearableart20. Three (3) winners will be chosen at random to win either $250, $125, or $75 to spend on any Bob Mackie Wearable Art at QVC. Contest ends May 31, 2012. Good Luck and Happy Pinning!

For more info on how to use pinterest, visit: http://pinterest.com/about/help/

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OFFICIAL RULES

“The Bob Mackie Wearable Art 20th Anniversary Re-Pin to Win” Contest Official Rules

 NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.

 1. Eligibility

The Bob Mackie Wearable Art 20th Anniversary Re-Pin to Win Contest (the “Promotion”) is open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States (including District of Columbia) who are thirteen (13) years or older at the time of participation. Void in Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and other U.S. territories and possessions and where prohibited by law. Employees of Bob Mackie Design Group, Ltd. or any of its respective affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising agencies, or any other company or individual involved with the design, production execution or distribution of the Promotion and their immediate family (spouse, parents and step-parents, siblings and step-siblings, and children and step-children) and household members (people who share the same residence at least three (3) months out of the year) of each such employee are not eligible. The Promotion is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations. Participation constitutes entrant’s full and unconditional agreement to these Official Rules and Sponsor’s decisions, which are final and binding in all matters related to the Promotion. Winning a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth herein. The Promotion consists of a sweepstakes (the “Sweepstakes”).

2. Sponsor

Bob Mackie Design Group, Ltd. 230 Park Avenue, Suite 303, New York, NY 10169.

3. Timing

The Promotion begins on May 16, 2012 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time (“ET”) and ends on May 31, 2012 at 3:00 p.m. ET (the “Promotion Period”). Sponsor’s computer is the official time keeping device for this Promotion.

4. How to Enter

To enter the Sweepstakes, you must be a registered Pinterest user. To become a Pinterest.com user is free. Once you are a Pinterest.com user you will automatically receive one entry into the sweepstakes by following all of Bob Mackie’s pinboards on pinterest.com/bobmackie. Limit one entry per person, per email address, during the Promotion Period. Then you must re-pin any item from the “Bob Mackie 20 Years of Wearable Art” board that must include the tag #wearableart20. Multiple participants are not permitted to share the same email address. Any attempt by any participant to obtain more than the stated number of entries by using multiple/different email addresses, identities, registrations and logins, or any other methods will void that participant’s plays and that participant may be disqualified. Use of any automated system to participate is prohibited and will result in disqualification. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible or misdirected registrations, which will be disqualified. In the event of a dispute as to any registration, the authorized account holder of the email address used to register will be deemed to be the registrant or player. The “authorized account holder” is the natural person assigned an email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted address. Potential winner may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder. All entries become the sole and exclusive property of Sponsor and will not be returned. Sponsor reserves the right to contact entrants and all other individuals whose email address is submitted as part of this promotion. Sweepstakes may have many different creative presentations.

5. Winner Selection

On or about May 31, 2012, Sponsor or an independent judging agency will select one (3) entries for each of the prizes described below in Section 8 in a random drawing of all valid entries received. The entrant will be contacted using their pinterest.com profile and may be awarded the prize (subject to verification of eligibility and compliance with the terms of these rules.) Sponsor’s decisions as to the administration and operation of the Promotion and the selection of potential winners are final and binding in all matters related to the Promotion. Winners will be notified by email on or about June 3, 2012. Failure to respond to the initial contact within five (5) days of notification will result in disqualification.

6. POTENTIAL CONTEST WINNERS ARE SUBJECT TO VERIFICATION BY SPONSOR WHOSE DECISIONS ARE FINAL AND BINDING IN ALL MATTERS RELATED TO THE PROMOTION.

7. Verification of Potential Winners

Potential winners must continue to comply with all terms and conditions of these Official Rules, and winning is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements. The potential winners may be required to provide the Sponsor with documentation that shows he or she was an eligible participant. The potential winners will be notified through pinterest account, email, telephone, or mail after the date of random drawing. The potential winners will be required to sign and return to Sponsor, within ten (10) days of the date notice is sent, an affidavit of eligibility, and liability/publicity release (except where prohibited) in order to claim his/her prize if applicable. If a potential winner of any prize cannot be contacted, fails to sign and return the affidavit of eligibility and liability/publicity release within the required time period (if applicable), or if the prize or prize notification is returned as undeliverable, potential winners forfeit prize.

8. Prizes

Three Prizes will be awarded. A Grand Prize winner will receive a $250 credit to QVC for any Bob Mackie Wearable Art items totaling that amount. The 2nd Prize winner will receive a $125 credit to QVC for any Bob Mackie Wearable Art items totaling that amount. The 3rd Prize winner will receive a $75 credit to QVC for any Bob Mackie Wearable Art items totaling that amount. Prizes are non-transferable and no substitution will be made except as provided herein at the Sponsor’s sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute any listed prizes for one of equal or greater value for any reason. Winner is responsible for all taxes and fees associated with prize receipt and/or use. Odds of winning depending on the number of entries received during the Promotion Period. Approximate retail value of each of the prize is $250, $125, and $75.

9. Entry Conditions and Release

By entering, each participant agrees to: (a) comply with and be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor and/or the Sweepstakes judges which are binding and final in all matters relating to this Sweepstakes; (b) release and hold harmless the Sponsor and each of its respective parents, subsidiary, and affiliated companies, the prize suppliers and any other organizations responsible for sponsoring, fulfilling, administering, advertising or promoting the Sweepstakes and Promotion, and all of their respective past and present officers, directors, employees, agents and representatives (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from and against any and all claims, expenses, and liability, including but not limited to negligence and damages of any kind to persons and property, including but not limited to invasion of privacy (under appropriation, intrusion, public disclosure of private facts, false light in the public eye or other legal theory), defamation, slander, libel, violation of right of publicity, infringement of trademark, copyright or other intellectual property rights, property damage, or death or personal injury arising out of or relating to a participant’s entry, creation of an entry or submission of an entry, participation in the Sweepstakes and Promotion, acceptance or use or misuse of prize (including any travel or activity related thereto) and/or the broadcast, exploitation or use of entry; and (c) indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Sponsor from and against any and all claims, expenses, and liabilities (including reasonable attorneys fees) arising out of or relating to an entrant’s participation in the Sweepstakes and Promotion and/or entrant’s acceptance, use or misuse of prize.

10. Publicity

Except where prohibited, participation in the Promotion constitutes winner’s consent to Sponsor’s and its agents’ use of winner’s name, likeness, photograph, voice, opinions and/or hometown and state for promotional purposes in any media, worldwide, without further payment or consideration.

11. General Conditions

Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, suspend and/or modify the Promotion, or any part of it, if any fraud, technical failures or any other factor beyond Sponsor’s reasonable control impairs the integrity or proper functioning of the Sweepstakes, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Sweepstakes or to be acting in violation of these Official Rules or any other promotion or in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner. Any attempt by any person to deliberately undermine the legitimate operation of the Sweepstakes may be a violation of criminal and civil law, and, should such an attempt be made, Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law. Sponsor’s failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision.

12. Limitations of Liability

The Released Parties are not responsible for: (1) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by entrants, printing errors or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Promotion; (2) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections in phone lines or network hardware or software; (3) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or the Promotion; (4) technical or human error which may occur in the administration of the Promotion or the processing of entries; or (5) any injury or damage to persons or property which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from entrant’s participation in the Promotion or receipt or use or misuse of any prize. If for any reason an entrant’s entry is confirmed to have been erroneously deleted, lost, or otherwise destroyed or corrupted, entrant’s sole remedy is another entry in the Sweepstakes play, provided that if it is not possible to award another entry due to discontinuance of the Promotion, or any part of it, for any reason, Sponsor, at its discretion, may elect to hold a random drawing from among all eligible entries received up to the date of discontinuance for any or all of the prize offered herein. No more than the stated number of prizes will be awarded. In event that production, technical, seeding, programming or any other reasons cause more than stated number of prizes as set forth in these Official Rules to be available and/or claimed, Sponsor reserves the right to award only the stated number of prizes by a random drawing among all legitimate, unawarded, eligible prize claims.

13. Disputes

Entrant agrees that: (i) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Sweepstakes, or any prizes awarded, other than those concerning the administration of the Sweepstakes or the determination of winner, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action; (ii) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Sweepstakes, or any prizes awarded, shall be resolved exclusively by the United States District Court or the appropriate New York State Court located in New York County, New York; (iii) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering this Sweepstakes, but in no event attorneys’ fees; and (iv) under no circumstances will entrant be permitted to obtain awards for, and entrant hereby waives all rights to claim punitive, incidental and consequential damages and any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses, and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of the entrant and Sponsor in connection with the Promotion, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of the State of New York or any other jurisdiction), which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of New York.

14. Entrant’s Personal Information

Information collected from entrants is subject to the Sponsor’s Privacy Policy, which is at http://www.bobmackie.com/contact.aspx.

15. Promotion Results

For Promotion results and/or a copy of these Official Rules, send a hand-printed, self-addressed, stamped envelope to Winners List, “Bob Mackie Wearable Art 20th Anniversary Re-pin to Win” Sweepstakes c/o Bob Mackie Design Group, Ltd., Park Avenue, Suite 303, New York, NY 10169. Requests for the winners list must be received by June 27, 2012.

This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA). For 50 years, the CFDA has been the leading trade organization in the American fashion industry. To celebrate, over 100 pieces from the CFDA’s most renowned members, including Bob Mackie, were asked to lend some of their most iconic pieces to an exhibit commemorating the milestone at the Museum at FIT in New York City. Bob Mackie is lending a bolero and a beaded gown to the exhibit.

The Museum at FIT is located on Seventh Avenue at 27 Street, New York City 10001-5992.  The exhibit opens to the public on February 10th and lasts until April 17th, 2012. The Museum hours are Tues – Fri: Noon – 8pm, Saturday: 10am – 5pm, closed Sundays & Mondays. For more information, visit: www.fitnyc.edu/museum.

For more information on the CFDA, visit: http://www.cfda.com/

To compliment the exhibit, the book, IMPACT: 50 Years of the CFDA, is available for Pre-Order at: http://www.abramsbooks.com/Books/IMPACT-9781419702310.html

Want to see a close up of the Bob Mackie pieces as well as join in on all the fun and excitement during the exclusive opening gala on February 9th? Follow our live coverage via twitter (@bobmackie) and our facebook page (www.facebook.com/officialbobmackiepage). We hope you can (virtually) join us!

Since it’s a New Year, it’s time for New Decor! From Decemeber 27, 2011 through January 4th, 2012 we are offering 25% off all Bob Mackie Art. Just Enter BMART12 during checkout. Happy decorating!

We are pleased to announce that we have finally launched our newly redesigned website.